RevProbe
Antonio Nappa, Rana Faisal Munir, Irfan Khan Tanoli, Christian Kreibich, Juan Caballero · 2016
Web service operators set up reverse proxies to interpose the communication between clients and origin servers for load-balancing traffic across servers, caching content, and filtering attacks. Silent reverse proxies, which do not reveal their proxy role to the client, are of particular interest since malicious infrastructures can use them to hide the existence of the origin servers, adding an indirection layer that helps protecting origin servers from identification and take-downs.